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Airframe Family:	Gloster Meteor
Latest Model:	Meteor U.16
Last Military Serial:	WK800 RAF
Compressed ID:	Gloster Meteor U.16 sn WK800 RAF
Latest Owner or Location:	Boscombe Down Museum, Old Sarum Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

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Dates		Event
		Constructed as a Meteor F.8.
4 September 1952		Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WK800.
		Converted to a Meteor U.16.
From October 1955 to July 1969		Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A77-876.
1960		Contracted to Fairey Aviation Ltd, Bankstown, New South Wales for work on the airframe.
1960		Converted to a Meteor U.21. Converted by Fairey.
1963		Transferred to No. 1 Air Target Unit, Woomera. Used for pilotless target service.
1965		Transferred to No. 2 Air Target Unit, RAAF Everts Field. Served as a drone.
July 1969		Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WK800.
1970		Contracted to Flight Refuelling Ltd, Tarrant, Rushton for work on the airframe. Converted by Flight Refuelling.
1970		Converted to a Meteor U.16.
11 October 2004		Last flight. From Llanbedr to Boscombe Down.
		To Boscombe Down Museum, RAF Boscombe Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Only the cockpit section survived here. View the Location Dossier
		To Boscombe Down Museum, Old Sarum Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Only the cockpit section survives here. View the Location Dossier
1 February 2014		Photographer: John Bennett

		This airframe dossier is based on unreviewed imported data. If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.

Credits
Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

Print Sources
Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100 to WZ999 (1996, ISBN 0 85130 314 5) by James Halley
Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100 to WZ999 (2003, ISBN 0 85130 321 8) by James Halley

Internet Sources
Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
Aerodata Quantum+

Individual Contributors
John Bennett
Mike Henniger
Peter Nicholson

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